Trump named seven wars that he said he brought to an end during his second term of his presidency. Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, The Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“No president or prime minister, and for that matter, no other country has ever done anything close to that, and I did it in just seven months. That’s never happened before; there’s never been anything like it. I’m very honored to have done it. It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them. And sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any way for any of them!” He said.
6. Trump Questions the Purpose of the United Nations
Trump claimed the U.N. never contacted him to offer to help finalize any of the deals for the peace treaties he brokered, which he said hadn’t occurred to him at that time. That realization came later.
“The United Nations wasn’t there for us. They weren’t there!… That being the case, what is the purpose of the United Nations? The U.N. has such tremendous potential…but it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential…it seems all they really do is write a really strongly worded letter, and then never follow up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action,”
He also spoke of the role he played in negotiating the Abraham Accords, and how some people had said he should get a Nobel Peace Prize for that.
“What I care about is not winning prizes, but saving lives, and we saved millions of lives by bringing an end to those seven wars. And we have others that we’re working on, and you know that.”
He went on to talk about the importance of the U.N. working together and “rejecting the failed approaches of the past, and working together to confront some of the greatest threats in history.”
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